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April 17, 1978 ^.The regular meeting of the Lino Lakes Park, Recreation and Environmental Commission was callec to order at 8:00 P.M. , April 17, 1978 by Chairman Resch. Members present: Resch, Foster, Liljedahl , Scherer, Shaughnessy and Johnson. Members absent: Crouse. Mr. Zelinka, Council liason and Mr. Volk, Public Works Supervisor were also present. Mr. Scherer moved to approve the minutes of the March 20, 1978 meeting. Mr. Foster seconded the motion. Motion declared passed. Mr. Zelinka explained to the Board that the City Attorney is currently obtaining an opinion from the Attorney General regarding the Council action to require each new housing unit to contrubte $150.00 toward park improvement and maintenance. This system is currently being employed in other townships and municipalities, however, the Legislature has not enacted legislation to cover this procedure. Ballfields - Sunrise Park Mr. Resch asked the Gentlemen in the audience to state the reason for their appearance at the Park Board. Mr. Sarner explained that there is a conflict with the use of the softball fields at Sunrise Park. He belongs to a beer ball league and they play all their games at Sunrise Park. However, there is another team who uses the fields for practice only and play in the Moundsview womens league. Mrs. Liljedahl suggested that the team who is practicing only could use the area in the S.W. corner for practice and bring their own bases. n Mr. Foster felt the fields should be given priorty to games. This is how other communities use their fields. Mr. Shaughnessy asked who was in charge of scheduling the fields. He was told it was on a first come, first served basis and a phone call to the City office was all that was needed. After further discussion, Mrs. Liljedahl moved to require that scheduled games take priorty over practice time for field use and schedules should be submitted to the Park Board by the third Monday in March. Mr. Foster seconded the motion. Motion declared passed. Mr. Volk was asked to inform Mr. Hagen of this procedure. Mr. Sarner asked about insurance requirements at the ballfields if a tournament is conducted. Mrs. Anderson will check with the City insurance carrier about this situation. Mr. Volk told the Board he plans to switch two ballfields at Sunrise Park as far as its use is concerned. He plans to make the two fields on the south soft ball fields and the northern fields little league fields. He said he would make the changes at the time the ag lime arrives. The work would involve about four hours time. Mrs. Liljedahl moved to have Mr. Volk change the ballfields at Sunrise Park so that the two south ballfields will be used for softball and the the two northern fields for little league. Mr. Shaughnessy seconded the motion. Motion declared passed. Mr. Volk said the backstop at the southwest field is in need of repair and could be danger- ous. Mrs. Liljedahl moved to have Mr. Volk determine the cost of repair to the backstop Viand if the cost is reasonable aske the Council at their April 24, 1978 meeting for approval to repair it. Mr. Shaughnessy seconded the motion. Motion declared passed. The parking situation at the south ballfields at Sunrise Park was discussed. Mr. Volk gave some suggestions as to how this situation could be helped. No action was taken.